About The Man, The Myth, The Cunt, The Mad Axeman

I started doing youtube properly with this channel, i had one before this which we do not speak of as it was gaming filmed on a very VERY bad mobile phone camera and just me uploading songs by bands i like, multiple have ten's of thousand's of views. I stopped uploading for a while because GIRLS, this meant my channel was basically dead and i only used my account for watching videos, the i found a youtuber by the name of Filthy Frank (yes i know, stop, i was watching him in Feb 2015 which was before he become this massive aids icon across internet culture) this humour struck me, i loved it, i connected with it, i shared it, i was inspired by his Pink Guy persona to make my own mixtape of my own ideas and ironically make it as terrible as possible and be funny by doing so, this felt perfect. Filthy Frank came around in a dark time of my life, my house flooded shortly after, i was stuck in a hotel wishing i wasn't alive (sorry to get dark), me and my girlfriend broke up during the period of me being held up in that hotel, i was alone, i was suffering my first true heartbreak, this humour i had discovered that seemed to connect with me so well was a way of laughing at the things you shouldnt, laughing at the world, i needed that, it was all that could get me through.

I got back to my house in the middle of March 2015, my spirits werent high but i had my house back, water damaged and all. I turned on my P.C and got on steam and skype to talk, laugh and play with my friends "DelSan" & "Voidran" it had been so long to me, going from every day to a month was tough on me, i never had many friends, i'd avoid going to school because of how low i felt, alot of people didnt get on with me because from the outside i came of as a bit on a lonely posh nerd to a few of the more popular pupils whereas to my friends i came of more as an energetic, funny individual but cynical and a negative nancy, perhaps a bit rude, sadly overtime the negative became more prominent and i accidentaly pushed people away in the process, including Voidran but there was much more than my behaviour going on in that whole situation, anyways, i got back to talking to them, we all had a similar humour and me and DelSan enjoyed Filthy Franks humour (DelSan was the one who showed me Filthy Frank in the first place). We all shared a joke about mixtapes due to a Filthy Frank video depicting shitty Soundcloud Rappers and their dreadfully awful mixtapes, i joked i'd make one so we could all have something to laugh about, they thought nothing of it and thought of it as just another funny suggestion and remark, little did they know 2 days later id have a 10 song long mixtape, we all thought it was one of the funniest things around, close friends were picking their fav tracks and reciting lyrics ironically, it was a good time, I created a youtube channel called The Mad Axeman (in reference to my Xbox Live gamertag " The Mad Axemanz" which is a running joke among us as its funny to us that i added a typical "z" at the end of it which made it seem rather stereotypical) and i went on to upload the mixtape to said channel that night under the name "The Mad Axeman - Fuck Bitches, Get Money" due to its artwork created by DelSan wich includes a photo of me Age 8 at my parents window with a purple pimp hat edited in to be placed upon my short haired skull and the text "Fuck Bitches Get Money" in bold and white. I loved making this mixtape so much i made another...in less than a day with yet again 10 tracks accept this one was far more fucked and experimental for some reason, i have quite an interesting look at art, the more fucked up and weird and dirty it is, the better, this mixtape was called "Internet Aids" which somes up all current and future content on my channel perfectly.

I went on to make mixtape after mixtape weeks apart, the "Just Do It!" meme came around at some point and i continued a theme of incorporating him into my mixtape artwork and or songs and made my own videos of him and various different situations such as being bullied and incouraging Ainsley Harriet to cook, these videos were me taking my first try at "Video Editing" and i still look back at them to this day and smile knowing that for the FIRST EVER video i made with editing of a serious purpose it actually holds some humour to it still and can be funny, wether its because of how bad it is or because of its style, its actually okay.

People were starting to find the mixtapes less funny and more and more repetitive and so was i and i eventually stopped for some time because i yet again got a girlfriend...the same one i broke up with which started this whole thing in the first place, for some time my channel was close to dead apart from having the occassionally bad gaming video uploaded to it, i was happy and occupied with my girlfriend, i felt like i had been giving a second chance because this was the one, i honestly was madly in love with her as she was with me at the time. After a few months of us dating the "Honeymoon Phase" wore off...and the depression set back in, this led us to argue more and for me to at times feel suicidal, id have her on the other end of skype or on the phone or by text trying to help me, it was a shit time for both of us, i didnt have my creative output because i was caught up so much in us, i couldnt let my weird and disturbed feelings out that way, instead it was being taken out on myself on her in arguements, i needed to change this so i bought a new microphone (as my headset mic i used to use broke which was another big factor in me leaving my channel for dead) and had something like 3 or 4 songs/tracks already made from months before with my previous mic and headspace, i went back in with my new mic, my mixtape "Vol 6" (featuring DelSan in the cover as a reference to him putting me in my first mixtape's cover) was appearing to look like a step in the right direction for my ironical musical output, it was generally well received by my friends and people who watched my channel, as i said it wasnt amazing but it was a step in the right direction, i was starting to feel okay and the feelings i used to get were coming straight back to me, i started making the next mixtape with my new mic almost instantly after releasing the previous, this was going to be called "Vol 7" and be a straight up continuation of the last songs i made on Vol 6, this mixtape was released to even greater reception than Vol 6, Vol 7 was possibly my best mixtape to date, the artwork was one of the best too depicting Adolf Hitler raising a pair of sunglasses to only be surrounded by static, darkness and red text stating "The Mad Axeman" and "Vol. 7", this was a new era for my channel, this was the start of the golden age id say content wise.

"Vol. 8" was next on my to do list, this was going to be like Vol. 7 but Bigger, Badder and Better in every way, this seemed almost impossible, it didnt help that this mixtape actually had hype building for it, i actually had people looking forward and wanting to get insider tips about it, it was great and all but fuck did i feel pressure, this mixtape took me probably a month or more to make, i made a teaser video for it which was well received, i dropped my mixtape and it did even better than Vol. 7 it was Bigger, Badder and better in every way like i wanted it to be, it had more tracks than any of the previous mixtapes and managed to stay funny and interesting all the way through, it had an eye catching cover which made the return of Adolf Hitler from Vol. 7 with his sunglasses looking off to the off image distance while he was surrounded with my friends and the people i knew who saw and were part of my mixtape making process and played games with me and talked to me, it was a weird way of saying thanks i guess while showing it was a direct continuation of Vol.7 but literally, bigger and badder and better in every way, i had done my best, this was smack dab in the golden age of The Mad Axeman, now came the REAL challenge..."Vol. 9"

Vol.9...how could it be better than Vol.8 id ask myself? i didnt know, my mind was dry, it was like the desert, all i could make were songs that were very instrumentaly focused such as Desserts In The Desert and Go Fuck Yourself, my direction was clearly changing, but i didnt know where, all i did know was that this mixtape had to be different, it had to be NEW, it wasnt going to be any better than Vol. 8 that was for certain. shortly after making the terrible lazy uninspired track "Puberty" i had to stop, i needed a break (for literally a few days, your boy used to make mixtapes pretty fast back in the day), i focused on my relationship and hoped that after a while id get musical ideas. days and days pass, my relationship is crumbling again, arguements are growing and becoming worse and worse, i go basically insane...which leads to the rest of the mixtape, you know, the "weird and creepy keyboard stuff". I found my new direction, it was keyboards...yes thats terrible but it was different, it was like nusery rhymes for the mentally disturbed which looking back now is what i should have called the mixtape, remember when i said i love it when music is creepy and weird and all that, thats why this mixtape holds a special place in my heart, the songs are great for that, it was inspired alot by wesley willis and his keyboard driven songs and weird childlike lyrics/vocals, this was my take on that largely, and it was great fun, musically its some of my best stuff i have made, the beats are both weird and catchy and the songs are somewhat funny. The Artwork of Vol.9 continued the trend of hitler being on the cover accept this time his fake sunglasses and cheeky grin were not included, instead a friend of mine had his head plastered on the nazi leader while surrounded by fellow nazis in what appears to be a parade, this artwork was well recieved and considered to be both funny and half decent quality, this mixtape ended up being the most "different" one i had made...(*cough* wait till you hear the new mixtape *cough* attack of the floating chinamen *cough*)

Little under a month after the release of Vol.9 i release a single called "Feeling Swole" which was certainly a new sound, it had a cheap old electric drumkit used in it that i had laying around for years (since 2008) which made a bit of a funky beat, other instruments featured in the song was a ukulele and a bongo which i hit the side of with a plastic drumstick, yes i know im a classy musician, the song also features the google translate voice for the first time since "Pimp 4 Lyfe" which was some time in early/mid 2015. The day after the release of Feeling Swole i released "I Fucked Your Bitch" which is a piss take of ukulele love ballads basically, whatever they are... The song features slightly out of tune ukulele and slightly off and annoying harmonies, it was a song made to piss people off but be laughable but sadly no one cared much for the song, feeling swole was recieved better by far. Fans got a bit of a surprise if they checked the description of Feeling Swole and or I Fucked Your Bitch, the description says "off of the upcoming last mixtape "X Marks The End Part 1""...do you see the problem there? yes it does say "last mixtape" doesnt it, let me explain this quickly but with wise words of wisdom:

I BASICALLY WENT INSANE MAKING VOL 9 AND I HAD ENOUGH OF MAKING MIXTAPES CUS MY BRAIN AND I WAS RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS SO I WAS LIKE "lol no more mixtapes now i is bored" BUT I STILL KEPT THE IDEA OF RELEASING JUST SINGLES AND JUST MAKE A COMP OUT OF THEM OVER TIME WHICH I MIGHT BE DOING AFTER ATTACK OF THE FLOATING CHINAMEN.

Now i had given everyone the expectations of a great last mixtape, i mean ffs it says "Part 1" and i never explained on youtube what "Part 2" would be (Part 2 was going to be 10 re-recorded versions of classic songs of mine or just personal favs but sadly i never got round to making this even it would have been a cool way to end my mixtapes but yeah) and considering the "meh" reaction to the singles i had released it showed that this mixtape wasnt going to live up to those expectations, tbh this mixtape was made with close to zero effort regarding song writing and lyrics, it is a very half arsed mixtape, i consider it up there as one of my worst, i only like 2 or maybe 3 songs off of it when im meant to like every song on a mixtape i make, this mixtape was a mistake, lets forget about it okay cool nice wanna fuck (also there is a song on it about my at the time failing relationship lol teenagers am i right)

After this i took a month and a half away from making mixtapes because in my head i was done, but then what do you know i got bored and got inspired by the harambe meme to make something, you know how i got hooked on the "just do it" meme for like 3 mixtapes or something, this was the harambe one, i made a harambe tribute song WHICH HAD UKULELE IN IT BEFORE FILTHY FRANK EVEN MADE HIS ONE SO FUCK YOU IF YOU CALL IT A RIP OFF annnnyyyywaaaayyysss i made this song and it was well recieved and i was feeling good so i made a mini mixtape called "Handing Out Beats Like A Black Dad", it was 5 tracks, 2 were completely new original songs, 1 track was a remix i did of the Die Antwoord song "Beat Boy" called "Can I Touch You" and there is a section where i did my own vocals that were pitched down and had indian sitar behind them to make this weird indian break in the song, and then i took the instrumental from the Die Antwoord song "Wat Pomp" and just made racist noises over it and put in the sitar again and then there was a track that was litterally two Die Antwoord songs just fucked up and ruined and mashed together by me as a piss take and to annoy people follow by me saying at the end "Oh Yeah!" then the mixtape ends, did i mention this is my favourite mixtape i have made to date? its the shortest but the best in my opinion if you ignore the last two tracks the first 3 are possibly the best songs i have ever made, atleast in my opinion, this mixtape was released over 2 months since "End Part 1".

2 months after the release of "HOBLABD" me and my girlfriend broke up and i fell into a deep depression and felt quite lost and unmotivated so i stopped making music again after just making the song "Welcome To My Club" barely a week before we split, i was just getting into making a return to my full length mixtapes after how much i enjoyed HOBLABD but i had to take a break for about 2 weeks...well i say that, i made about 3 or 4 songs during that period, they were fucked...they were bad, boring and just weird and they will never see the light of day, NEVER...eventually i got a sudden pulse of motivation and just made tracks non stop for what was like 4 to 5 days, i had 11 tracks that i wanted to put on the mixtape, i didnt know what to call it but it just so happens i was delving in smoking weed and drinking alcohol ALOT when making the mixtape hence the name "THC 4 U", the album has a loose concept about drug use and how it can effect you which in this case it was about making you violent and horny, bet you didnt notice that did you but now you will go back and see how obvious it is just by the song titles and their lyrics, the last song on the album i made was the first track "Inside Your Mind" because i wanted to make the album a little longer and have a weirder track on there, overall the mixtape was greatly recieved and some said its my best in a long time, i was happy to be back to making mixtapes, almost instantly i got to work on its follow up which for months was under the title "THC 4 ME" due to a cryptic track i recorded that went by that name which was meant to continue a concept of drug use and the tale of a man in a dystopian world where drugs are used by everyone but the government but this plot fell apart due to me not giving a fuck and i ended up taking a break after recording a song called "Living In The Hood" which has been the best performing single i have put out since asshole off of my first mixtape, Living In The Hood showed a clear focus on drums, HOBLABD already had samples being used which continued into THC 4 ME but after receiving a newer, bigger and better electric drumkit for christmas 2016 i was gaining interest in using more instruments to make the songs feel a bit more full up and thick and have an actual beat behind them, something driving them forward, in the process i brought back electric guitar for Living In The Hood instead of using random samples, i wanted to push myself a little and perform more instruments and make things bigger and more interesting.

Since the release of Living In The Hood i have been experimenting alot and trying out new things and have been posting some of the songs to youtube for the past 5 months, so far the wait for the new mixtape has been the longest yet at a record of 6 months, all i can promise about Attack Of The Floating Chinamen is that its different and it pushes some boundaries musically compared to my previous efforts and i think if you recognise that then that should alone be enough to love AOTFC, all you need to do is be patient and look forward to having something new to laugh and listen to, im The Mad Axeman and i am terrible at grammar and spelling, goodbye.